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IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Barry E. DiGregorio |
Climatologists and River Agency Butt Heads About Future of Southwest's Hydroelectric Power Will hydropower from Hoover Dam end in 2013, 2017, or just keep going?   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
Geotimes
August 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Tree Rings Reveal Overestimate in Western Water When a severe drought hit the Colorado River Basin area between 2000 and 2004, people began to question whether current practices for managing the river would be adequate for managing future water demands. One recent study suggests an answer: probably not. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
New Explanations for Western Drought Arizona Wildfires Four separate fires raged across Arizona at the end of June and the beginning of July. The potential for fires across the West this summer was normal to above normal, exacerbated by the region's ongoing drought. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sally Adee |
Water Ship Up Firm gets $250 million to make oceangoing desalination vessels. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Grand Canyon Floods On Nov. 21, the Department of the Interior approved a release of water from the Glen Canyon Dam in an attempt to rebuild the beaches and other sedimentary environments. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Megan Sever |
A Desert Oasis Now is the time to book a flight into Las Vegas, spend the night in a casino and scratch your gambling itch if you must, and then head out on a few day trips for some natural relief from all the glitz and glamour of the strip. |
Science News
February 16, 2008 |
Timeline: From the February 12, 1938, issue Towers reach skyward to start radio waves... River took hardest way, formed Yellowstone Canyon... Years of drought coming to great basin, is warning... |
Outside
March 2010
Elizabeth Hightower |
The Wild File: Dead Pool A dead pool is the level at which water can no longer be released from a reservoir and it may be happening sooner than you think. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
Outside
November 2002
Tom Price |
Queen of the Dammed With western drought lowering Lake Powell daily, Glenn Canyon fans dream of going all the way. |
Wired
November 2004
Jeff Howe |
The Great Southwest Salt Saga How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. |
Outside
July 2008 |
Grand Canyon Rafting Photo Gallery Epic shots of the Grand Canyon taken while rafting down the Colorado River. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Lisa Robert |
Hijacking the Rio Grande: Aquifer Mining in an Arid River Basin A major dilemma for the modern Southwest: a choice between a future driven by rampant growth or by an obligation to hydrologic reality. |
Popular Mechanics
July 25, 2008
Michael Milstein |
Beyond Wind Plan, Pickens Eyes Pipelines in Drought-Ridden U.S. Billionaire hedge-fund manager T. Boone Pickens testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday to outline his new wind-power plan, but it's a water pipeline initiative that could reshape the landscape of Texas' drought dilemma. |
Outside
June 2004
Mark Sundeen |
Dry Run on the River of Sorrows The Dolores used to be one of the mightiest whitewater rivers in the West. Then politics and dry weather got in the way. But neither drought nor dam nor partisan bickering can stop the author from floating (and walking and driving) the entire course of the Rio de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. |
Outside
September 2005
Brad Wetzler |
Jackpot Nevada may be big and windswept, but don't dare call it empty. An adventure road trip through the Silver State turns up a secret-stash play land of back country splendor, high-end diversions, and a horizon that never stops beckoning. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
Outside
August 2003
Misty Blakesley |
Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead. |
High on Adventure
June 2003 |
Rafting Utah's Cataract Canyon Canyonlands National Park serves up adventure |
Fast Company
Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Jon Gertner |
We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
Not a drop to drink Forget oil -- an expert on the world's water supply talks about the vital substance we will hoard, ration and probably go to war for in the near future. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Peter Rogers |
Drinking Water for All: A 21st Century Challenge Across Africa and much of the developing world, water is a precious commodity. Providing safe potable water supplies is a nonstop challenge, and will only become more of a challenge as the climate changes. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2005
Carolyn Bilsky |
Mountain Markets Climb New population growth and low costs boost Western states' commercial real estate growth. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Sara Pratt |
Geophenomena Lake Vostok's Complicating Ridge Could Alter Current Efforts to Sample the Lake... Gauging the Geysers with Quakes... |
Outside
February 2002
William T. Vollmann |
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary� and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created� and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters... |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
William Sweet |
Drought Forces U.S. Government to Decide Among City Residents, Nuclear Power, and River Mussels Until Friday, endangered mussels in Florida were protecting a key Alabama nuclear station |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Jean Kumagai |
Australia's Drought-Busting Water Grid In the driest continent, saving water means spending watts |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Susan Tweit |
Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT. |
Adventure
March 2004
John Annerino |
Canyon Legends Three unsolved mysteries from the Grand Canyon. |
Adventure
October 2004
Cliff Ransom |
Northeast of Nowhere Adventures in Oregon and Washington include kayaking and hiking. |
Adventure
March 2004
John Annerino |
Riding the Wild Colorado Strategies for taking America's ultimate river trip. |
Science News
June 16, 2007 |
Timeline: From the June 12, 1937, issue What will the rivers do now?... Eros shaped like huge brick tumbling end over end in sky... Wallpaper patterns linked to atoms in study of design... |
Wired
February 2002
Steven Kotler |
Reengineering the Everglades For decades, the world's largest wetlands have been diked, dammed, diverted, and drained. Here's how massive earthmoving, underground plumbing, and statistical modeling are getting South Florida back to nature -- new and improved... |
Scientific American
December 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
Real Travel Adventures
March 2005
Bonnie Neely |
Lake Tahoe, California & Nevada Fun For All Seasons Whether you are planning a winter or spring break ski trip, a summer family vacation or reunion, a wedding, or a business convention, the Lake Tahoe area has it all for the best time anyone could plan for any time of year and any occasion. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
New Water Model for Southwest According to a new model by a researcher working in the New Mexico water basin, the seven-year drought that affected the area in the 1950s may finally be making its way into the Rio Grande. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
Skiing and mining intersect in Colorado A paper published in the Sept. 23 Eos by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments explores the relationship between river contamination from abandoned mines and snowmaking activities at ski resorts in a state where tourism provides $9 billion annually. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Bill Donahue |
The Same River Twice It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river... |
